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Black History: A Salute To The 44th President Barack Obama
• Speech About Climate Change To Congress June 2013
• Eulogy Of Rev. Clementa Pinckney June 2015
President Barack Obama delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Reverend Clementa Pinckney at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., June 26, 2015.
President Obama traveled to Charleston, South Car- olina to honor the life of pastor and state senator Clementa Pinckney -- one of the 9 who lost their lives in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The President sang, ‘Amazing Grace’.
President Barack Obama sits with Cuban Presi- dent Raul Castro at the Estadio Lati- noamericano in Havana, Cuba, as the members of a U.S. delegation in- cluding U. S. Sec- retary of State John Kerry attend an exhibition game on March 22, 2016, between the Cuban National Baseball Team and the Tampa Bay Rays.
President Barack Obama committed in the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% be- low 2005 levels by 2030, and 83% below 2005 lev- els by 2050.
In an address towards the U. S. Congress in June 2013, Obama detailed a specific action plan to achieve the 17% carbon emissions cut from 2005 by 2020. He included such measures as shifting from coal-based power generation to solar and nat- ural gas production.
Climate change is seen as a national security threat to the United States.
• Relations Between U.S. And Cuba Opens December 2014
The Cuban Thaw is a warming of Cuba– United States relations that began in December 2014, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility be- tween the nations.
In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first U. S. President to visit Cuba since 1928. On December 17, 2014, U. S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the beginning of a process of normalizing relations between Cuba and the
President Barack Obama aboard the "Viewfinder," touring Resurrection Bay, Alaska after years pushing for climate issues.
President Obama and Cuban president United States. Raul Castro in Panama.
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